Electricity use drops nearly 10% as ski lifts close early

Stay-at-home orders and closed businesses, combined with an abrupt end to the ski season, are changing the electricity consumption and demand patterns for Holy Cross Energy, which supplies electricity to much of the Roaring Fork and Eagle river valleys.

Aspen Journalism
By Elizabeth Stewart-Severy March 27, 2020

Stay-at-home orders and closed businesses, combined with an abrupt end to the ski season, are changing the electricity consumption and demand patterns for Holy Cross Energy, which supplies electricity to much of the Roaring Fork and Eagle river valleys.

Since the ski lifts between Aspen and Vail stopped spinning on March 14, Holy Cross has seen demand for electricity fall 8% to 10%.

“It brought the onset of spring load patterns a month early,” said Steve Beuning, vice president of power supply and programs at Holy Cross.

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